Change of circumstances if you get a Centrelink payment
It’s important to tell us if your circumstances change if you get a payment from us or owe us money.
When you get a payment from us
You need to tell us if any of your or your partner’s personal circumstances change. These changes could affect your payments. If you don’t tell us, we may pay you too much. This means you may get a debt and you’ll need to pay us back.
Disability
Read what changes you need to tell us about if you’re getting one of these payments:
- Continence Aids Payment Scheme
- Disability Support Pension
- Essential Medical Equipment Payment
- Mobility Allowance
- Youth Disability Supplement.
Families and separated parents
Read what changes you need to tell us about if you get one of these payments or child support arrangements:
- Additional Child Care Subsidy
- Binding child support agreement
- Child Care Subsidy
- Child support assessment
- Court ordered periodic child maintenance
- Dad and Partner Pay
- Double Orphan Pension
- Family Tax Benefit
- Limited child support agreement
- Newborn Upfront Payment and Newborn Supplement
- Parental Leave Pay.
Job seekers and students
Read what changes you need to tell us about if you’re getting one of these payments:
- ABSTUDY
- ABSTUDY Fares Allowance
- ABSTUDY Incidentals Allowance
- ABSTUDY Living Allowance
- Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
- Austudy
- JobSeeker Payment
- Parenting Payment
- Partner Allowance
- Pensioner Education Supplement
- Relocation Scholarship
- Remote Area Allowance
- Sickness Allowance
- Student Start up Loan
- Youth Allowance for job seekers
- Youth Allowance for students and Australian apprentices.
Older Australians and carers
Read what changes you need to tell us about if you’re getting one of these payments:
- Age Pension
- Aged care means test
- Carer Allowance
- Carer Payment
- Pension Loans Scheme
- Widow Allowance.
Other payments and concession cards
Read what changes you need to tell us about if you’re getting one of these cards or payments:
- Commonwealth Seniors Health Card
- Farm Household Allowance
- Health Care Card
- Low Income Health Care Card
- Pensioner Concession Card
- Rent Assistance
- Special Benefit
- Status Resolution Support Services payment
- Telephone Allowance.
When you don’t get a payment from us
If you don’t get a payment from us but owe us money, you must tell us if your address changes. You need to do this within 14 days of your address changing.
Page last updated: 23 June 2020
This information was printed 11 August 2020 from https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/topics/change-circumstances-if-you-get-centrelink-payment/30761. It may not include all of the relevant information on this topic. Please consider any relevant site notices at https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/site-notices when using this material.